Growing Gaps

Educational Inequality around the World

Edited by Paul Attewell and Edited by Katherine S. Newman

Attewell and Newman assemble an impressive collection of scholars to address a vast amount of different situations, and are thus able to provide a unique account of the overarching trends in education across the globe that contribute to inequality

Growing Gaps

Educational Inequality around the World

Edited by Paul Attewell and Edited by Katherine S. Newman

Description

As inequality grows rapidly both in post-industrial societies and in the high-growth economies of the developing world, its centrality and ubiquity among problems of interest to social scientists is becoming only more apparent. And among all of inequality's causes and manifestations, access to education is key to understanding and combating it, both for improving a person's individual life chances and for increasing countries' national wealth.

In Growing Gaps, Paul Attewell and Katherine S. Newman bring together an impressive group of scholars to closely examine the relationship between inequality and education. Indeed as many countries grow economically, it is unclear whether this growth leads directly to increased opportunity or more ferocious competition and thus more severe inequality. In many growing economies there has been a staggering growth of private higher education as demand for opportunity has outpaced supply, and families who must fund this human capital accumulation are only burdened with more and more debt. Outlining the world-wide race for educational advantage, this volume takes a comparative approach, aiming to not only describe various nations' systems of education, but weave them together in a larger network of stratification. Covering almost every continent, Growing Gaps provides an overarching and essential examination of who is actually able to benefit from economic growth and who, because of the educational demands it brings about, it shuts out. The book will serve as a lasting achievement towards understanding the root causes of inequality in an increasingly interconnected global society where the worsening situations for some increasingly effect all of us.

Growing Gaps

Educational Inequality around the World

Edited by Paul Attewell and Edited by Katherine S. Newman

Table of Contents

Preface:Access to Education: Mobility Tool or Roadblock of Stratification?Katherine Newman 1.: Education and Inequality In a Global ContextPaul Attewell 2.: Educational Inequality in Latin AmericaChristian Cox 3.: Entrance into prestigious universities and the performance of discriminated groups on the "vestibular": Black Students in the University of São Paulo, 2001-2007Antonio S. Guimaraes 4.: Education and Racial Inequality in Post Apartheid South AfricaMalcolm Keswell 5.: Social Class and Educational Inequality in South KoreaKwang-Yeong Shin, Byoung-Hoon Lee 6.: Equal Opportunity in Higher Education in Israel: Lessons from the KibbutzYaakov Gilboa, Moshe Justman 7.: Socio-political Changes and Inequality in Educational Opportunities in China: 1940 - 2001Li Chunling 8.: Middle-class Losers?: The role of emotion in educational careersYi-Lee Wong 9.: The After Life of NEETSKaren Robson 10.: Over education and Social Generations in France: Welfare Regimes and Inter Cohort Inequalities in Returns to EducationLouis Chauvel 11.: Education and the Labor Market: The Case of PolandPawel Polawski 12.: The Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants in the EU Effects of Characteristics of Origin and Destination Countries on the First and Second GenerationFenella Fleischmann, Jaap Dronkers 13.: Gender, Perceptions of Opportunity, and Investment in SchoolingAngel Harris

Growing Gaps

Educational Inequality around the World

Edited by Paul Attewell and Edited by Katherine S. Newman

Author Information

Edited by Paul Attewell, Professor of Sociology, City University of New York, and Edited by Katherine S. Newman, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Paul Attewell is a Professor of Sociology who teaches in the doctoral programs in sociology and in urban education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book, co-authored with David Lavin, was Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations? It won the 2009 Grawemeyer Award in Education and also the American Education Research Association's Outstanding Book Award for 2009. Katherine S. Newman is the Malcolm Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and the Director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. Newman's most recent books include The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (2007) and Laid Off, Laid Low: The Social and Political Consequences of Employment Instability (2008).

Contributors:

Paul Attewell is a Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent book, co-authored with David Lavin, was "Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off Across the Generations?"Louis Chauvel is Professor of sociology, director of the PhD program of sociology at Sciences Po Paris, and member of Institut Universitaire de France.Li Chunling is Professor of sociology at the Institute of Sociology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.Cristián Cox is head of the Centre for Research on Educational Policy and Practice at the Catholic University of Chile.Jaap Dronkers is the 'Social stratification and inequality' professor at the European University Institute near Florence, Italy from September 2001 until December 2009, then will be honorary professor 'International comparison of education performance and social inequality' at the Maastricht University, the Netherlands.Fenella Fleischmann is a PhD researcher at the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (Ercomer) at Utrecht University and at the Centre for Social and Cultural Psychology (CSCP) at Leuven University.Yaakov Gilboa is a senior lecturer of economics at Sapir Academic College and one of the founding members of the department of Applied Economics.Antonio S. A. Guimarães is Professor Titular at the University of São Paulo.Angel L. Harris is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies.Moshe Justman is Professor of Economics and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben Gurion University in Israel.Malcolm Keswell is Associate Professor of Economics at Stellenbosch University and Honorary Research Associate of the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.Byoung-Hoon Lee is a professor at the Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University, Korea.Katherine S. Newman is the Malcolm Forbes Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and the Director of the Institute for International and Regional Studies at Princeton University. Newman's most recent books include The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America (2007) and Laid Off, Laid Low: The Social and Political Consequences of Employment Instability (2008).Pawel Polawski is Assistant Professor and co-director for evening studies at the Institute of Sociology, Warsaw University, and Secretary of the Polish Academy of Science' Committee on Sociology.Karen Robson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University.Kwang-Yeong Shin is a professor at the Department of Sociology at Chung-Ang University, Korea.Yi-Lee Wong is a sociologist, currently working as an Assistant Professor at University of Macau.

Growing Gaps

Educational Inequality around the World

Edited by Paul Attewell and Edited by Katherine S. Newman

Reviews and Awards

"Growing Gaps provides a variety of case studies that illuminate the causes and consequences of inequality globally. The readings highlight how education still plays a significant role in social mobility and social reproduction across nations. There are real theoretical and empirical gems contained within these pages." - Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology and Education, New York University